cocktails by the pool

 
Style:  WONDERFUL

Format: LP
Label: Vondue (Private)

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

This is one of my all time favourite records! Norbert Gottschalk's voice is the finest Germany has to offer. I even prefer him to Mark Murphy. Enough of the adulation and back to the facts. It's a private release so it's not available everywhere. And apart from being rare it's a wonderful album with 5 mindblowing tracks, 1 amazing track, 1 standard and a blues.....

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Style: Latin Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Brisas

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Horribly hard to find latin fusion recorded in Germany.

My fave is the uplifting Alicia. And there's more ...

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Style: Cocktails by the Testarossa

Format: LP
Label: Titan

Year: 1988

Condition:NM/NM

No matter how you like your Martini, you'll have some on this smooth balearic Jazz album. But always remember: don't drink and drive!

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Style: Saint Tropez Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Plainisphare

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

This feathery light mediterrenean fusion album kicks of with a great boogie fusion jam and then slips into something cozy. Great latin vibes in here as well. A summer record!

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Style: Emotional Overlord

Format: LP
Label: Grabaciones Accidentales

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+

Elegant and emotional cocktail party vibes from the Costa del Azaha.

Get yourself a Tinto de Verano or an Agua De Valencia and smoothly groove along the dawning sun!

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Style: Emotional Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Mermaid Music

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Highly emotional ambient soundscapes with a wink from Denmark's mermaids. Chill 2000!

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Style: Cocktail Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Windham Hill

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

I'm so in love with this hell of a tune Enivre D'Amour.

One of the classiest Cocktail Jazz pieces I've ever heard :)

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Style: Balearic Boogie

Format: 7"
Label: Ahorn

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

"Heute Ist Nicht Sonst" is such the tune. Tightest drum programming, a highly infective bass and sweetest horn arrangements. Achim "grüne Reise" Reichel on the console. Dance Sucka!

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Style: Gentle Guitar Wizardry

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+  

Balearic Guitars recorded in the GDR just one year before the wall came down. There's quite some aspiration in these songs...

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Style: Contemporary Jazz / Latin Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Stunt

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

This danish gem hardly pops up outside of Denmark (where i found it as well). Not just the playful Samba Song will make you smile. The whole album is a treat. Listen to Bo Stief on Bass!!

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Style:  Cocktail-Happy Dub Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Trikont

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM

The bavarian version of wonderful Tropical Pop. Mixing elements of Fusion, Latin Music, Synth Pop and Bavarian Folk ... Including the mighty bittersweet Lovin' Is Easy as well as I'm A Smoker But I Don't Want Any More. Highest possible recommendation!

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Style:  Fusion / Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: SBF (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM 

Mindblowing fusion by austrian guitar wizard Christian Maria Seitelberger featuring Adelhard Roidinger and Karl Heinz Miklin. I just managed to score the last few remaining copies from the group. Unplayed and stored well for more than 25 years!!

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Style:  Balearic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Inside (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+ 

A highly recommended 80s Fusion album with lots of tracks that will amaze friends of guitar driven mediterrenean Jazz. 

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Style: Spooky Balearic / Halloween Cocktail Party

Format: 12"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Maybe the only Halloween track suitable for a cocktail party? Have you ever had a Halloween on the beach? Too many questions?

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Style: Smooth Balearic / Cocktail Jazz

Format: EP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 2015

Condition: M/M  

A lazy afternoon. Two lovers kissing. Cocktails by the pool.

A white yacht down in the harbour. Mischevious Whispers -

or is it the sound of a saxophone carried over by the wind.

Four smooth edits for the summer, gently crafted and

wrapped into the amazing cover art by Jiro Bevis

LAST COPIES!!

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Style:  Contemporary Jazz / Jazz Funk / 80s Jazz

Format: LP
Label: YVP (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Teutonic cocktail Jazz at it's BEST!!!! 

Perfect for some margaritas by the pool.....

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Style: Esoteric Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Mercury

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Aaahsome esoteric fusion with latin and tropical influences.

Reminds me of Ben Tankard's All Keyed Up ...

Highly recommended!!

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Style: Balearic Rap

Format: 12"
Label: Gee Street

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG 

No, this is not a Spandau Ballet Edit - it's PM Dawn motherfuckers. Softies got it the hard way when smashed from the stage by KRS but luckily they survived to spread their message of love and understanding. Set Adrift is a wonderful example of post De La smoothness that you still can play today.

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Style: Ethno Pop / Balearic

Format: LP
Label: Kopf

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Wonderful Balearic Pop / Ethno Pop by the turkish-german group Bescay. Jochen Schrumpf from Ceddo on guitar. Horribly hard to find but TOTAL BLISS guaranteed ... 

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Style: Deep Rhythms

Format: LP
Label: GRP

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM

Deep Rhythms on this boogie influenced smooth jazz album. Check out the wonderful Amethyst Secrets!!

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Style: Jazz Rock / Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Melodya

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+  

Great estonian Jazz Rock featuring lovely versions of standards like Summertime and Sweet Georgia Brown, but my fave is the funky & exotic scat-tune Fa-Ya-Fa-Ya. Highest recommendation!

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Style: Sweetest Vibes

Format: LP
Label: Concorde

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Lorraine has a famous father. Well, famous amongst jazz cats - Leonard Feather was a highly acclaimed jazz journalist. Sweet Lorraine doesn't write - she sings. And she does it it like an angel. Check her version of Moondance and become a fan too!

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Style: Summer Pop

Format: LP
Label: 1988

Year: WEA

Condition: NM/VG+  

Matt Bianco's second longplayer. Including more of those lovely latin-jazz-pop-composites for the balearic sessions in the sun and the spectacular piano house tune Wap Bam Boogie

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Style: Balearic Pop

Format: 12"
Label: Metronome

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

I always thought of this as the "sunshine equivalent" to Driving Home For Christmas. A balearic feel good hit of the neverending summer...

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Style: Soft Funk / Breezy Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Punch

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Library style Balearic Funk meets breezy Latin Jazz with some heavy guitar scatting. Weird and wonderful...

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Style: Emotional Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Titan

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

Baleraric pop about Mr Dark all alone sitting in the park.

I see him sitting there with a cocktail in hand ...

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Style: Peace Within!

Format: LP
Label: Chef

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Amazing copy of this calm and peaceful beauty. 

Music to read books by and have a cocktail!

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Style: Relaxed Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Aurophon

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Pretty much unfindable but deeply relaxed Fusion to watch the clouds pass by. With that little bit of melancholy. One for the summer!

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Style: Cocktails by the pool

Format: LP
Label: Happy Bird

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM 

wonderful summer vibes on this under the radar 80s Latin / Easy Jazz LP. Good vibes all the way... so many nice cuts.... featuring Ringo Hirth from Kitty Winter's Gypsy Nova on drums

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Style: Late Night Bossa / Mediterrenean Wizardry

Format: LP
Label: Domino (Private)

Year: 19??

Condition: NM/NM  

Half of the tracks of this amazing album here are Villa-Lobos compositions - Leaving enough playtime for some self-penned songs by Haberl and his comrad Hubert Waldner, who also plays flutes and saxophone. And then there are these wonderful vocals by some lady called D.B. One that will not only make collectors of italian 70s soundtracks cry. This beauty is out of this world!!

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Style:  Party Crushers

Format: LP
Label: Merlin (Private)

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

One of the obscurest private DIY Pop records I came across in the last few years. Of course I got attracted by the beautiful combination of cover and title ;) Musically it's just as interesting: Soft but Cynical Post Sade Synth-Pop with a boogie touch at times!

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Style:  Cocktails By The Pool

Format: LP
Label: Sundance

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

For me this album is all bout Song For Suzanne.

Blissful instrumental popjazz perfect for a sundance or two...

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Melodya

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Estonian compilation including Radar's "Samba".

Forget about Bamba's Dimenzio.

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Style: Summer Pop

Format: LP
Label: WEA

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Aside from the obvious hits like Yeh Yeh and Dancing In The Streets and the latin jazz boogie Smooth this fantastic album holds one of my favourite pop songs for the sunny season - Summer Song!

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